Ilford Pan F Review - "Fine Grain Specialist"
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- Опубликовано: 11 июл 2024
- Our Ilford Pan F review compiles the comments, recommendations and feedback from the community - with technical details from Ilford - to give you an excellent overview of Pan F 35mm film's strengths and weaknesses!
Ilford Pan F 50 is a wonderful low-speed fine-grain black and white film, and is consistently rated 4 and 5* in our store (35mm film). Perfect for studio work, but also great for landscapes and street photography thanks to the fantastic amount of detail that can be obtained from the negatives. Photographers have also found that it captures portraits with a surprising softness - there's enough contrast to be interesting but not so much it overwhelms or distorts!
A couple of watch-outs when shooting Ilford Pan F film - it is recommended that you process the film promptly after exposing. This is due to the nature of the emulsion being slightly less stable than typical black and white films (in order to achieve the incredible results!) Don't panic about it :-) but perhaps also don't leave the finished film in a cupboard for several months...
Also remember that ISO 50 means that you'll probably need a tripod for most situations shooting Pan F 35mm film outside of a bespoke studio set-up or bright natural sunlight.
Otherwise - just sit back, relax and enjoy! My most important takeaway of the Ilford Pan F review is that people get fantastic results in a variety of situations: as long as you consider the amount of light that the film needs then you're going to get lovely images.
Please note: all images used in the video remain (c) of the artist. For the corresponding specific Ilford Pan F review by the photographer and any further details about their work please head to the product page:
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Also please note that some of the sample images were taken on Ilford Pan F 120 film i.e. medium format. While this will accentuate the detail and fine grain in any one image, the tone and results of the film are broadly replicable on 35mm.
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Very helpful and informative!
Thank you Andrew!
Thank you for the informative review -- I can't wait to run wild with this film on my next trip to a rocky seaside!
Really interesting, and informative! Can't wait to shoot with this when my box arrives!
ah thank you! Me neither :-D I've always wanted to shoot Pan F 35mm but never quite got round to it before...now's our excuse :-)
Thanks for the good review. I got a roll of it and due to the Bad weather i left if for a few months in my camera. That was a bad idea. So shoot it fast and it looks great. Otherwise it will turn heavy contrasted and dark.
You're welcome! Oops, hopefully the sun will come out for you soon so you can get the best results 🙌
Brilliant, can't wait to receive my first box!
Wahoo!!!!
I should first say that I only really take pictures of buses, trams, and trains. Yes, I am odd. Many years ago, I was allowed to borrow official photographs taken of new buses of the Yorkshire Traction Company from the 1920s onwards that had clearly been taken on plate cameras to copy them to 35mm in order that I could supply them with a number of photos and enlargements that they could give away. I was not allowed to remove them from their glass-fronted frames, so having cleaned the glass to within an inch of its life, I did so using an Opemus enlarger with a camera attachment in place of the enlarger unit, using Pan F film, lighting it carefully to avoid reflections and unevenness. The results were every bit as good as the originals, if not better. Use Pan F for copying.
Develop promptly is a stretchy term because I've developed Pan F 50 that's been shot and stored in the fridge for 6 months and as far as I could see the images turned out just fine.
I've seen Pan F literally disappear if not processed promptly.
@@linjicakonikon7666 How long were they undeveloped? Weeks, months?
I waited a week once, and no issues.
Nice review! I have a roll of Pan F to play with :)
ah! Let me know what you think of it after :-)
Thanks for watching the 1st product video from our Analogue Wonderland WonderBox featuring ILFORD PAN F 50 black and white film 📷
If you are familiar with shooting black and white film and have shot ILFORD PANF F previous then let us know what you thought or if this is a new addition to your 35mm film photography story then please let us know how you get on 😆
I haven't shot any ISO 50 film for a long time but this just might motivate to try it for a few projects I have in mind.
Great thinking! Anything in particular you reckon would be well-suited to the strengths of Ilford Pan F?
@@AnalogueWonderland I live near a national park that was mostly homes and farms a few decades ago and I like to search for remnants of the old buildings - I was thinking they would look really cool in sharp b&w.
@@TimFitzwater Ooh yes - that sounds perfect
Maybe I should get something like that.
Wouldn’t Pan F be a great option sheet film for 4x5+?
Now there's an idea! Yes I would love to see some large format Pan F film!
Harman say that they can’t produce Pan F in sheet form. Something to with the emulsion being incompatible with the mechanical handling of the film during the sheet film production process; I don’t know the details.
I used to reversal process it in 36 mm years ago.
This film has an actual sensitivity of 40 ASA at best. Give it more light if you want the contrast to be softer.
Back when Dinosaurs ruled the Planet I preferred Kodak Panatomic - x.
Haha, you're not that old 😉 Great film though!
Ilford F.P.3 Agfa Dia Direct. Kodachrome @ 8 A.S.A. and even Dufaycolour!
I've shot PanF 120 in a Rolleiflex for years - processed in Ilfotec HC 1:60 - both for studio portraits and landscapes. The negs scan and print very easily.